This Sought-After Sweater From The Brutalist Can Now Be Yours

“In this world of mass production, I wanted to keep it quite niche,” Forbes said of the sweater’s small run. “I wanted to retain how special it is. It’s not going to be unique anymore, but it is still going to have a rarefied quality.” The duo needed to produce as many as they did, however, because they “didn’t want to make it so expensive that only very few people could actually afford to have it.” They opted to offer preorders “so there’ll be no wastage,” which was important to Forbes and Blumberg.

The duo wanted to do right by the garment, which wound up requiring a careful, analog approach that, in some ways, paralleled The Brutalist’s seven-year-long journey to the silver screen. Forbes wanted to maintain “the integrity of that original piece and the same integrity that I’ve always felt [in] the film and the script.”

When Forbes and I spoke earlier this year, she shared that Brody himself had taken a particular liking to the sweater during his fittings for the film: “I remember him photographing it incessantly,” she said then. I asked this week if she planned on sending one of the reproduced sweaters to the best actor winner (who, back in June, wore an A24-made László Tóth T-shirt while on vacation in Sardinia).

“I mean, I probably should,” she said, laughing. “I don’t think it would be quite the sweater that it is now without Adrien having worn it, because it did look amazing on him.”

The Brutalist sweater is now available for presale on brutalistsweater.com. On November 15, Forbes and Blumberg are hosting a launch party at Twos Project Space in London, where visitors can try various sizes before preordering.